I took it for pain for years. Nothing ever relieved the pain better. But I didn't abuse it. I had to work so used it to manage my severe pain & it never got me high.
Granted this medicine is highly abused by druggies so that's a drawback. And body does become tolerant to it and requires increasing dosage yearly. Been off of it for years but do miss those days I had NO Pain and could function like everyone else. It is highly addictive to those who have a propensity for addiction. The drug itself is not Bad, like all the new meds that you can call the law offices of (fill in the blanK) if new med causes death, etc. The "new" meds are deadly